IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Midway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007CO087002
  • User Pedon ID: 07CO087002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007CO087002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0123
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19030
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.4120560
  • Std. Longitude: -104.0752258
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 60W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1374 feet north & 1414 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: Sg—Shingle soils
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO087—Morgan
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO087—Morgan County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40104-D1—Sunken Lake, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andy Steinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Midway
  • PSC - 0 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2013
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shingle
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, smectitic, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/2006
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 106
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 6
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    ATCA2

    2BARE

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Atriplex canescens

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    blue grama

    fourwing saltbush

    Bare Ground

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    38 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    paralithic contact

    ochric epipedon

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    0—11

    —38—

    —11—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    1371

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    90

    330

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    154

    9

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    CO3038

    Fort Morgan

    Wets
    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay; 10 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 42 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 2 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00786; observed in trench
    AC—11 to 20 centimeters (4.3 to 7.9 inches); 70 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face and 30 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, 70 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face and 30 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; silty clay; 10 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 42 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 2.0 fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 4 percent fine and medium threadlike gypsum crystals, unspecified along lamina or strata surfaces; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00787; observed in trench
    C—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); 60 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face and 40 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, 60 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face and 40 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; silty clay; 10 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 45 percent clay; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak columnar parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine vesicular and 1.0 fine vesicular pores; 6 percent fine and medium irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 3n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00788; observed in trench
    Cr—38 to 121 centimeters (15.0 to 47.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine and medium distinct mottles; Ksat of 0.01 um/s; very slow permeability; 6 percent medium and coarse irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified along lamina or strata surfaces; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 3n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, phenol red. Lab sample # 07N00789; observed in trench